Packaging question: conflicting binaries
Ville Skyttä
ville.skytta at iki.fi
Tue Aug 24 23:09:36 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 18:38, Aaron Bennett wrote:
> I'm packaging the "Pyro" python library, from
> sourceforge.net/projects/pyro, and it includes several sample scripts.
> Unfortunately, one of them is called "esd."
>
> How should I deal with this? Unfortunately, making it not install them
> at all requires a hack to pyro's setup.py;
%install
[...]
rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT{_bindir}/[not-wanted-stuff]
(or use %exclude in %files) ?
> installing them in a
> different place is easy. Is there a fedora.us custom about installing
> sample python scripts as part of python libraries? Should they go into
> /usr/share/doc/python-pyro/examples?
Personal opinion: is/are the script(s) really useful as anything but
examples? If not, I'd install them as %doc, if yes, perhaps rename the
conflicting ones to eg. pyro-esd.
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